The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-08-12
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
lFrom Our Regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Aug. 8th, 1887.
The Controller of the Currency has given no.
tice to the national banks requiring them to sub
nit to him full statement of their affairs at the
close Of the business August lst-in default of
which they will be fined and the sums paid into
the United States Treasury-the purpose being
to see whether these institutions have their f.
nances In proper shape 60 meet any requirements
During the month of July 1876 names were
added to the pension rolls by the Democratic adj
mnistration. which, according to Republican
partisans has nothing but hatred and hostility to
the Union veterans.
The pension which was put through by Forger
Harvey, as attorney for widow. turns out, upon
closer Investigation to be a fraud-and thus
nearly 900 was at the last moment. saved to the
Government The Pension Office offers great
field for fraudulent manipulations. but the evil
doors almost invariably come to grief. Two men
have Just been arrested In West Virginia on a
charge OF forgery In connection with pension
case.
Public Printer Benedct's reply to the New
York Iri6unes charge that he disseminated
against Union soldiers In making appointments
or dsmissals is clear and convincing to the last
degree, showing, as 1t does, that Mr.. Benedict is
true and careful guardian OF the interests of
the soldiers for, according to actual census of
the Office taken by him, about one-half of its en-
ployes are either Union veterans or their widows
and children-all Of whom are protected in their
positions by special statute, but which the
present printers Republican predecessors ig-
nored when 1t applied to Democratic Union SOL
examples that might well warrant retaia-
tions In kind his part still, he has not done So
but, impartialiy given to all whom 1t is due. the
has increased the working capacity of the estab-
lishment, although compelled to reduce the
force and has won the lasting gratitude of all the
employees by paying sem-monthly, instead of
monthly, as was the rule under the Republican
regime.
Secretary Lamars request that the heads of
bureaus of the Interior department present their
annual reports much earlier than heretofore
strongly tends to confirm the general impression
that he will soon be transferred to the Supreme
Bench. Mr.. Lamar would adorn that lofty tri-
buna Us few men In America could, for, in addi-
tion TO being the first among Southern statesmen
and tursts. his mind is cast in judicial mould.
President Cleveland says of him, that of all the
men he has ever met, he believes Secretary La
mar to possess the clearest and most profound
intellect.
About twenty patent attorneys Of Washington
who were the benehciaries of Bacon's generosity
with the public funds have been notified that
unless they Immediately refund the sums bor-
rowed-some $5,000-it will be considered cause
for disbarring them from practice before the In
terror Department; the bondsmen of the late
financial clerk have signified their willingness Ia
pay his defalcation when 1t Is certified to prop
erly.
Mrs. Cleveland is gleefully disporting herself in
the foamy waves of BuZzard Bay on the coast OF
New England. The other day in the little Village
OF Marion, where she stops, IL was nosed abroad
that Mrs Cleveland was going to take plunge
In the surf, but, when she appeared on the beach
1000 people were assembled to see the sight, YET
need hardly add they were disappointed.